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Knife Lake
by muskieman

Trip Type: Paddling Canoe
Entry Date: 06/01/2008
Entry & Exit Point: Snowbank Lake (EP 27)
Number of Days: 6
Group Size: 2
Day 2 of 6
Monday, June 02, 2008 We woke up the next morning(not quite as early as we wanted) around 10 or 11 and feasted on an oatmeal and gatorade breakfast(powdered form no bottles). After exploring the island for a while and fixing up camp a little we set out fishing. We decided to troll along the shoreline until we found somewhere we wanted to anchor up and fish slip bobbers, on our first pass down the shoreline we got a lot of snags and one small smallmouth. we eventually made our way around a point into a bay and anchored up next to a downed tree. We saw a few smallmouths swimming around but no takers. Next we moved out to a small rock sticking out of the water in the middle of no where, where we were watched closely by some nesting seagulls. Unfortunately no bites yet again. We decided to troll the same shoreline back to camp and slowly start getting ready for dinner. Just ass we were going over a shallow rocky marcs rod jumped, another snag i thought but then i heard him say its a fish! And it was! a nice little lake trout that would become dinner. We kept trolling all the way back but only managed to pick up a couple of small pike. We filleted up the trout and cooked it with lemon paper and a lot of butter all rapped in tinfoil with some mac n cheese for a side. I went to bed dreaming of more lake trout.